Amanda Pullinger
August 12, 2016
Chief Executive Officer at 100 Women in Hedge Funds

Increasing the Visibility of Women in Finance

In this Interview conducted by Harvest, I give my thoughts regarding the changing dynamics of women in the financial industry, the performance of hedge funds run by women, and 100 WHF's role in the educational process.  I also touch on 100 WHF's philanthropic focus.

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A few Excerpts below:

"If you look at the traditional data on the roles that women hold in finance, it has been dominated by the sales and marketing area and less so on the portfolio management and trading side.  Part of what we want to do with our new initiative “Investing in the Next Generation” is very deliberate outreach to universities and business schools globally to provide these young women with a diverse group of our members who are in different roles in the industry who can talk about why finance actually is a great career for women and what they do every day in their jobs. If we can inspire young women to realize that what they’re studying at university that they really love can be translated into something that not only makes money, but from an intellectual standpoint can be one of the most rewarding careers out there, then I think we’ll do a better job of attracting more young women into a variety of different roles in the industry."

"I do believe women managers are an untapped resource that allocators are massively overlooking. Women managers, for a lot of different reasons, aren’t as visible as men. I think they are not as well-networked because they are more focused on creating good returns, which is why you’re seeing the numbers, but are less focused on getting out there and marketing their fund."

"I think diversity actually brings the best results because you’re bringing in people who have a different perspective of the world. There’s an opportunity for women in those roles to think outside
the box and think differently. After all, in the alternatives world, we’re talking about alpha, and part of alpha is finding a different way of thinking about a particular problem and profiting from it."

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